Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This amazing statement suggests that McCarthy is as firmly fixed in his Senate seat as Virginia's Byrd or Georgia's Russell. Such is far from the case. In the 1952 elections McCarthy ran at the very bottom of the Republican ticket in Wisconsin, getting less than 55% of the major party vote, as against 61% for Eisenhower, 62.5% for Governor Kohler, 66% for Secretary of State Zimmerman and a 61.6% average for the ten Republican candidates for Congress...
...home state, McCarthy in 1952 was a drag on his party even before he began to smear the Republican national leadership. Recently there have been indications that McCarthy's strength in Wisconsin has dropped sharply. The Senator seems aware of that. Almost every weekend since his row with the Army began, he has hurried back to Wisconsin on spcechmaklng and fence-mending trips...
...received A.M., B.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin in 1935, '37, and '42 respectively...
...that McCarthy has been and still is uncomfortably regarded as a card to show when he's calling Democrats traitors and to hide when he's defaming sturdy Republicans. Only when the party is threatened do Republicans listen to the call of the country instead of the coyote from Wisconsin...
...shipyard in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., Mrs. Jean McCarthy, wife of Wisconsin's junior Senator, swung heftily with both arms, smashed a bottle of champagne across the bow of a new Navy vessel, the 385-ft. LST 1170. Joe McCarthy, as silent as he has been at any event in years, glowed and said: "It's Jean...